Origin

Halfworld

Hundreds of years ago, humanoids from a different planet went searching through space to conduct research. They found a place called the Keystone Quadrant next to the constellation of stars called Sirius Major. They would decide to use this place as an Insane asylum. The humanoids made robots for the asylum, the robots would stay with the patients and help them when in need. They wanted to find out what was happening in their brains that would make them go insane.

Everything they observed was very interesting to them, and it taught them a lot. They would write everything they saw in Gideon's logbook. They continued their research, until one day their funding was cut off. They were told that they would have to return to their planet. This caused them to become very upset and for as little as they could they watched the patients as much as possible. They wanted to find a way in which they could protect the patients during their absence. They created a force field. and called it "The Galacian Wall". It would wrap around the whole star system where the asylum was. This way they could keep their patients and outcasts safe from the outside world. The robots stayed behind with the patients. For many years they would help them do things the patients could not do themselves. There came a problem due to Keystone's condition, when the patients started to have children the children also became insane.

As life continued they began to call themselves "The Loonies". They even began a religion of their own. They would worship ancient shrinks as gods. The priests were called "The Good Humor Men" and they would call the old logbook their bible. They would house it all in places called "Admissions Wards". The robots wanted to create a way in which they would not always have to directly care for the patients. So they started to play with genetics. They would do tests on the pet companions the shrinks left behind. Soon enough the plan was a success. The animals would take care of The Loonies. While the robots went to another side of the planet to create a star ship and find a way to shut down the force field so in order to go away.

Over time, the planet became known as the "Halfworld," which it was called for many reasons. One was because it was divided in robots or "the industrial half". Soon the robots began to build toys for the patients. They made many weapons and machines. But, these were only made for the animals to use. Many of the animals also requested cybernetic enhancements to their bodies. The animals over time created their own place to live (away from the patients).

Creation

Rocket Raccoon first appeared in a black and white magazine from Marvel Comics named Marvel Preview #7 (1976). He was created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen. Initially introduced as "Rocky Raccoon," his name and certain aspects of his character drew clear inspiration from the Beatle's song of the same name.

Major Story Arcs

The Toy War

When Hulk had battled a monster named Galaxy Master he had transported himself into the Halfworld. This is where Hulk met Rocket Raccoon. At the time Rocket Raccoon was a Quadrant guardian. Rocket Raccoon would try to figure out how Hulk got through the force field. Later, the head of Inter-Stel Mechanics had sent a mercenary called Black Bunny Brigade to Halfworld. He went and stole The Loonies bible and held the ward as a hostage. Rocket asked Hulk to help get the bible and save his the ward. After the mission a tortoise named Uncle Pyko sent Hulk back to earth so he wouldn't ruin the animal society.

When a man called Lord Dyvyne took over Inter-Stel Mechanics more problems began. Jakes and Pyko were kicked out of the space wheel. The Black Bunny Brigade was forced away from Jakes the old leader. Jakes moved where he made Mayhem Mekanics. He had scientists create allies. They would create things called Killer Clowns, and bat like beings called Drakillars. He made a plan to marry a girl named Lylla. The reason to marry her was to gain her family fortune and the toy company they had made. Later, Jake had a killer clown kill Lord Dyvyne's top toy mechanic. This started a war called the trade war. Rocket then went after Jake. But, Lord Dyvyne had taken Lylla hostage so she would marry him instead. This made Rocket and her uncle go after them. They found Lylla at the asylum. When the killer clowns had captured Blackjack O'Hare's army, O'Hare went and saved Rocket from Lord Dyvyne's monster called Red Breath. They then tricked the clowns into killing their own monster by vacuuming him up. This destroyed both sides of the assassins.

The two evil toy makers have teamed up against Rocket. Blackjack led them away and they had found the Loonies bible in the possession of Uncle Pyko. From it they learned about its origins. They went to the robots for help and Rocket gave the bible to the robots. The information helped them to make a wonder toy. The toy would be a helmet that would cure the Loonies from being crazy. Jakes and Lord Dyvyne teamed up and attacked Rocket for one last time. They did this so Rocket would not destroy the toy making business. The killer clown almost defeated Rocket, but he was surprisingly saved by Blackjack. Finally, the robots showed up with the cured Loonies and defeated Jakes and Dyvyne.

After the big war there were many changes. The animal people had elected the former Loonies to recreate the world but, Rocket and his friends went with the robots on their star ship to explore the universe. Rocket would later die during the course of a journey at the hands of a creature called The Plaugesoar on a planet called "Witch-World" despite Wayfinder's desperate attempts to save him.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy

Rocket was approached by his old friend Star-Lord and asked to become a member of a team that would prevent any more damage to the universe. After helping to contain fissures in space-time, the team still did not have a name. Once they found Major Victory in a block of ice from another reality, he informed them that he was a member of the team called The Guardians of the Galaxy.

Soon the team learned that Starlord had asked Mantis to mentally persuade the other members into joining the team. The team split up, and Starlord disappeared. Rocket took it in his own hands to reform the team and lead it himself. After convincing Mantis to become an active member, he also recruited Major Victory, Groot and Bug. After a run in with the Badoon, they were contacted by Starlord, who turned out to be trapped in the Negative Zone.

They successfully rescued Starlord and gained a new team member, Jack Flag. Starlord became the leader once again. Meanwhile, Adam Warlock and Gamora invade the Universal Church of Truth's headquarters, as Adam Warlock wishes to find out more about them, and asks to speak to their captain. Elsewhere, Drax and Quasar begin looking for Cammi, but on their search they talk to a seer who tells them about the oncoming war.

War of Kings

Adam Warlock and Gamora return to the Guardians and inform the team of the War of Kings. Starlord and Rocket Raccoon decide to split into 3 teams to keep the war from growing out of control. The Kree Team with Starlord, Bug, Gamora, Jack Flag and Martyr, the Shi'ar Team with Rocket Raccoon, Drax the Destroyer, Adam Warlock, Major Victory and Groot and the Coordination Team with Moondragon, Mantis and Cosmo the Spacedog

The Kree Team ask Black Bolt to stop the war, a request he denies. The Shi'ar team becomes separated from Adam Warlock, who is transported onto a Shi'ar vessel and is attacked by Vulcan. The rest of the Shi'ar Team works with the Starjammers to free Lilandra from Emperor Vulcan. Warlock fights with Vulcan and some Imperial Guardsmen. In the end Guardsman Magique is able to put a "Witch Mark" on Adam without him knowing, enabling her to track him down when needed. Meanwhile, Martyr kidnaps Crystal to force the Inhumans to stop the war, both squads transport back to Knowhere, but are followed by the Imperial Guard through Magique's Witch Mark on Adam. and the Inhumans using Lockjaw's teleporting powers. The three-way battles rages all over Knowhere, until the Inhumans are able to retrieve Crystal and return to Hala. Magique follows Adam Warlock, who magically transfers the Witch Mark onto her, leading Shi'ar soldiers shoot her instead of Adam Warlock. The Guards are eventually forcibly teleported off of Knowhere.

Thanos Imperative

The Guardians with Thanos in tow headed to the cancerverse's Titan where Lord Mar-vell originally cheated death. They succeed in unleashing Lady Death on Mar-vell, which in turn destroyed the cancerverse but in doing so, Thanos was once again turned away by Death and threatened to destroy the entire 616 Universe until Star-lord and Nova decided to use the last powers of the Nova Force and the cosmic cube to seal off the collapsing cancerverse, sending Rocket Raccoon and the rest of the Guardians back to Knowhere in time. It is unknown if any of them survived. Rocket and Quasar are left in the aftermath of the war looking over two statues of Nova and Star-lord.

Timely Inc.

With the Guardians disbannded and the Annihilators formed as Star-lord's final mission statement, Rocket left to take a job with Timely Inc, a business firm close to his old homeworld. Rocket quickly grew dishearted with his job as he felt his time was wasted and most people thought of him as a joke. Things took a strange turn when a mysterious package arrived and a homicidal clown made out of living wood, similar to his old teammate Groot, attacked him. Rocket stopped the Clown by breaking a window sending the clown into outerspace but the incident caused his boss to fire him. A week later, Rocket took a ship out to Planet X to get answers from Groot. When he arrived, he found out that Planet X was filled with Groots and the one that had been part of the Guardians was in fact a younger member of the race that had become the monarch. Rocket eventually rescued Groot from exile and discovered that Groot originally sided with the Undergrowth Resistance, which was the working class of citizens on Planet X that was looking for equal treatment from the Groot Monarchy. Rocket sought to rally them but it was revealed that the Resistance just wanted some better pay and vacation time but they were soon attacked by more killer clowns make out of the sentient wood. Rocket, Groot and the Resistance fought back and defeated the clowns and Rocket was able to get the Undergrowth the treatment they wanted from the monarchy and Groot was released into Rocket Raccoon's care. Rocket soon found out that the clowns were sent from Halfworld.

Mojo TV

Shortly after leaving Halfworld, Rocket and Groot found out that they were swept into the inter dimensional TV producer, Mojo's latest Reality TV idea. Using real life crimes that Rocket Raccoon and Groot would fight but instead of being the heroes. If an innocent was caught in the crossfire, they would be killed in the process. Now Rocket and Groot seek to stop Mojo. As Rocket and Groot moved from one setting to another, Mojo started advertising action figures with a collection pack that allows buyers to assemble their own 12" Groot figure after collecting all five. The demand was so high, Mojo stand to make a fortune until the Timely Inc. Mail Device decided to take his own action in stopping everyting and held a very large plasama rifle at Mojo's face. It allowed the reality system to stop just enough for Rocket Raccoon and Groot to leave their fictional landscape and head straight towards Mojo's base.

Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel Now

Rocket Raccoon Marvel Now

Rocket Raccoon is an ongoing series written and primarily penciled by Skottie Young. The book focuses on Rocket when he's not gallivanting across the galaxy with the Guardians. Despite it mainly being a solo title focusing on Rocket, Groot is heavily featured as Rocket's partner.

A Chasing Tale -

Thought to be the only one of his kind in the universe, Rocket is arrested and framed for murder when a walking, talking raccoon goes on a killing spree.

Rocket being interrogated

Meanwhile, the trail of scorned women that Rocket has left in his wake is now coming back to haunt him. Led by Princess Amalya, the Ex-Terminators are a group of Rocket's ex-girlfriends all out for revenge.

Eventually it is revealed that the raccoon that had framed Rocket for murder was really Blackjack O'Hare, a mercenary from the same home planet as Rocket, in disguise. Blackjack was also looking for revenge against Rocket for foiling his attempts to assassinate Princess Amalya, who Rocket inadvertently saved some time ago.

While confronting Blackjack, Rocket is interrupted by the Ex-Terminators. In an all-out battle against Blackjack, Amalya, and her Ex-Terminators, Rocket barely emerges victorious, seemingly putting his past behind him.

However, in a twist cliffhanger, it is revealed that there really is another one of Rocket's kind. Captain of a spaceship and sporting an eye-patch, the mysterious female raccoon is on the lookout for a legendary book that is of great significance to Rocket.

Powers and Abilities

Since Rocket is a raccoon he has sharpened senses. He wore rocket skates which let him fly. He is great with all types of weaponry, though he prefers guns.

Other Media

Television

Avengers - Earth's Mightiest Heroes -Rocket Raccoon appeared with the other members of the Guardians of the Galaxy in Season 2 episode 6 - "Michael Korvac" and was voiced by Greg Ellis.

Ultimate Spider-Man - Rocket plays a major role in the episodes "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Return of the Guardians of the Galaxy," voiced by Billy West in the first episode and by Trevor DeVall in the second.

Video Games

Rocket as he appears in Marvel vs Capcom 3

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Rocket Raccoon appears as one of the 12 new playable characters. After defeating Galactus, Raccoon decides to visit Raccoon City, only to learn of the horrid zombie plague infecting the city. His play style in the game is close to mid-range so opponents have a hard time keeping away.

Marvel Heroes - Rocket Raccoon appears as a playable character in the MMO game. Different costumes include the Marvel NOW! costume, the Guardian of the Galaxy Marvel NOW! costume, the Original Green costume and the Modern costume.

Lego Marvel Superheroes - A LEGO version of Rocket makes an appearance as an unlockable player character. He is voiced by John DiMaggio.

Disney Infinity: Marvel Superheroes - Playable in the Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy playset, this version of Rocket Raccoon coincides with how he is depicted in the film. He is voiced by Nolan North, and is unlocked by buying the accompanying Disney Infinity figure.

Film

Rocket Raccoon in the movie

Rocket appears as one of the main characters in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, voiced by actor Bradley Cooper, with his motions captured by Sean Gunn. In the movie, he is the product of experiments involving cybernetic implants. Acting as a bounty hunter with his friend and partner, Groot, Rocket attempts to capture the wanted outlaw, Peter Quill a.k.a Star-Lord. While attempting to subdue Quill, Rocket and Groot are themselves captured by the Xandarian Nova Corps. Not willing to waste away in prison, Rocket masterminds a plan that allows him, Groot, Star-Lord, Drax the Destroyer, and the assassin Gamora to escape. This would eventually lead to the formation of a team known as the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Rocket is sharp-witted and headstrong, but fiercely loyal and very tenacious. He acts as the team's weapons and ordinance expert, as well as its primary strategist and field coordinator.

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